Daldos evolved from Tab gams
DALDOS is the ship game of the Mary Rose shipwreck. There is a neglected category of board games that is neither pure war nor pure race. It is an in-between category. Tab-like games. This is where the game Daldos falls. The tab game has its origin in the Near East & Africa. Already being played in Egypt during the 13th C BCE. In 1267 the game was mentioned in the poem DIWAN by Muhammad Ibn Daniyal, a Persian poet & physicist. Tab is a game in which the purpose is to eliminate the opponent's pieces while moving along a linear track depending on dice rolls the number of lines (or points) along a track varies from as many as 18 to as few as 11. a theory is that tab games were imported to Europe by Viking merchants or mercenaries from the Middle East & further spread during their conquests to England. The game Libre de los Juegos from the, Alphonso X the Wise Manuscript (1283) does contain an elimination game along the line, in the game of astronomical tables....